Justice is one of the most basic and potentially important social psychological areas of inquiry. The assumption that others will be fair is what makes social cooperation possible. This article provides a brief review of trends, both historical and current, in the social psychological study of justice, and provides an introduction for a special issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review ...

BACKGROUND Although China ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control [FCTC] in 2005, the partial ban on tobacco advertising does not cover the internet. Weibo is one of the most important social media channels in China, using a format similar to its global counterpart, Twitter. The Weibo homepage is a platform to present products, brands and corporate culture. There is great poten...

Purpose: There is a gap in social science literature addressing issues of access and quality of care for transgender military veterans. Psychologists, medical doctors, and other health professionals are beginning to address some of the barriers present in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) system that affect veterans who are also transgender and intersex. Over a 7-year period, between 2006...

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Sheri Berman is Associate Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and was previously at Princeton University. She is the author of two widely-acclaimed books, The Social Democratic Moment (Harvard University Press) and The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press), and has written many academic articles. A student o...

Actors of public interest today have to fear the adverse impact that stems from social media platforms. Any controversial behavior may promptly trigger temporal, but potentially devastating storms of emotional and aggressive outrage, so called online firestorms. Popular targets of online firestorms are companies, politicians, celebrities, media, academics and many more. This article introduces ...

Social capital theory is based on the notion that networks of relationships constitute an important resource for the conduct of social affairs. Unlike human capital, which rests in individuals, social capital is embedded in the networks of mutual acquaintances and relationships of the individual or the organization. As a theoretical perspective, social capital is receiving increasing attention ...

Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) is currently under discussion in Science and Technology Studies because it is reconstructing how social should be seen by social scientists. In the core of ANT is the concept of translation underlining how actors constantly engage in a process to translate their languages, their problems, their identities and their interests into the others. Understanding the social a...